Who’s Next In Line?

So if Saturday’s win over Wales was boring and unconvincing, we had to go a step better, or worse, last night didn’t we.

I would firstly like to point out that although yes we lost, yes we were crap and yes it was Northern Ireland, it’s only the fourth competitive game we’ve lost under the Swedish ladies man. Cries of sack him now are on everyone’s tongues but shouldn’t we first try and think of someone who would take his job?

I’d say most of the blame should be heaped on the players anyway, who were playing a different formation and in different positions in some cases, but made mainly lower league players look good. Not that I have anything against lower league players of course!

It did annoy me how in the first 20 minutes every time we got the ball we got kicked, but I suppose that was just roughing up our “world class” players, which seemed to work. The midfield did nothing, defence looked dodgy, and was the £17m man even playing? And don’t get me started on Rooney, I wish Beckham had slapped him just before half time when he spat his dummy out.

Enough of that though, they don’t deserve any more column inches. I’d prefer to talk about our other national team in action in the crickeeeet. This last test could go either way after the first day, I still think our best chance of winning is going to be hoping our usual lousy weather works in our favour for a change. For those who say cricket’s boring compared to football, did you not watch that game at Windsor Park, oh dear I’ve started again…